Re: Volume on -devel
On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 06:12:49PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> -devel is too high volume, and has many posts from people who are
> apparently lacking in clues. I hope that these people (I won't name
> names) are not developers.
>
> I renew my call for -devel to be closed to non-developer postings.
>
> Perhaps if -devel didn't have postings from nondevelopers we wouldn't
> be so tempted to discuss things on -private when there is no need for
> privacy.
-devel is very high volume, but I'd disagree with closing it off. Alot of
potential developers subscribe/post.
*please* can we have debian-stable and debian-unstable for questions (from
end-users) about those distributions (we need debian-unstable).
a mailing list for future directions could be useful - discussing things
ranging from FHS through PAM, KDE, Gnome, socksifying, etc etc.
Adrain
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